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Granted we're not a startup, we came to your conclusion a few years ago - mainly due to ours having been involved in developing products for startups AND being startup founders ourselves. We're also coming from Romania - an ecosystem that abounds in tech skills and tragically lacks business skills.
So you can imagine we're trying to bridge that gap and we start from recruitment and company culture (our CTO phrased this as 'growing a startup culture in an agency' here: around25.com/blog/startup-culture-...).
The results? We started to change as a company; currently, we're switching from outsourcing agency to a product development one and the transition is sure taking a lot of work. Especially when you realize hiring software engineers into product engineers means hiring only knowledge-thirsty individuals who never cease learning by themselves :)). It's not a small feat for sure.
Another thing we do is we try to create learning opportunities that involve product development and this is how taking part in our local Startup Weekend competition became a yearly tradition (as our CEO explained here around25.com/blog/rome-was-not-bui...).
Couldn't agree with your post more & hopefully our insights will serve others looking to change their approach.
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Granted we're not a startup, we came to your conclusion a few years ago - mainly due to ours having been involved in developing products for startups AND being startup founders ourselves. We're also coming from Romania - an ecosystem that abounds in tech skills and tragically lacks business skills.
So you can imagine we're trying to bridge that gap and we start from recruitment and company culture (our CTO phrased this as 'growing a startup culture in an agency' here: around25.com/blog/startup-culture-...).
The results? We started to change as a company; currently, we're switching from outsourcing agency to a product development one and the transition is sure taking a lot of work. Especially when you realize hiring software engineers into product engineers means hiring only knowledge-thirsty individuals who never cease learning by themselves :)). It's not a small feat for sure.
Another thing we do is we try to create learning opportunities that involve product development and this is how taking part in our local Startup Weekend competition became a yearly tradition (as our CEO explained here around25.com/blog/rome-was-not-bui...).
Couldn't agree with your post more & hopefully our insights will serve others looking to change their approach.